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Waze adds speed limits feature, planned drives

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Waze is rolling out the new feature first in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, Tobago and Uruguay. The rest of world will follow. Waze also recently introduced a planned drive feature for the iOS platform.

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Russia’s ?-AUTO and Latvia’s OSC collaborating on hybrid rally sports

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mobile hybrid, and OSC , the Latvia-based developer of alternative drive rally cars (OSCars), have signed an agreement on collaboration and strategic partnership in developing alternative transport in motorsports. mobile will participate at The Russia Championship rally in 2012, and subsequently in the Dakar event.

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Mitsubishi Motors running two new MiEV Evolution III electric racers in Pikes Peak Climb

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Also running in the Electric Modified Division will be a Tesla Roadster from Latvia.). MMC has competed twice before in the Electric Division—in 2012 and 2013—and now with the MiEV Evolution III, hopes to take its first victory, this time in the new Electric Modified Division. Earlier post.)

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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This past November, he focused on the efforts of three Baltic states—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—to separate their electrical grids from the Russian-controlled synchronous AC power zone. Such a condenser is essentially a large synchronous machine that spins freely; however, a flywheel connected to its shaft can store kinetic energy.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The event, still held today, serves as a forum for utility companies, engineers, contractors, and consultants to present and discuss trends and challenges. Participants have come from China, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Macedonia, Spain, and Russia. In 1968 he founded the Transmission and Substation Design and Operation Symposium.